Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1960-05-01 / 5. szám
FRATERNITY 13 LET’S SMILE Terminology used in legal documents is often criticized for being too formal and high flown for the average person to grasp. In the following letter, however, written by an attorney in India for one of his clients, we think the meaning is crystal clear. The letter read: “Dear Sir: Unless you pay the .... rupees you owe within seven days of this date, we shall take such steps as will cause you the utmost damned astonishment.” ★ ★ ★ A well-to-do waiter from an expensive restaurant took his young son to the zoo one Sunday, and the two watched the lions being fed. The keeper threw a huge slab of meat into the cage and went his way. “That wasn’t very polite”, criticized the son. “Why doesn’t he serve nicely the way you do to customers?” “Confidentially”, whispered the father, “lions are rotten tippers.” ★ ★ ★ “Miss Glamour”, said the employer regretfully, “your work has been very perfunctory.” “Thank you”, replied the delighted secretary. “That’s the first word of praise I’ve had for some time.” ★ ★ ★ It seems a pretty young student nurse and her doctor fiance had just broken their engagement, and the nurse was telling her girl friend all about it. “Do you mean to say”, exclaimed her friend, wide-eyed, “that he actually asked you to give back all his presents?” “Not only that”, sniffed the young Florence Nightingale, “but he just sent me a bill for 36 visits!” ★ ★ ★ Captain to Rookie: “Don’t you know better than to point an unloaded gun at me?” Rookie to Captain: “But, sir, it isn’t unloaded.” ★ ★ ★ At a London party an American, wishing to be friendly, remarked to a guest: “When I’m in London I feel that I belong. One of my relatives fell at Waterloo.” “How distressing”, was the reply. “At which end of the platform?” The American thought this a good joke and at his first opportunity told the story to his hostess, who became quite indignant: “Ridiculous!” she said. “What difference could it possibly make at which end of the station platform he fell?” ★ ★ ★ Puzzled judge: “But why did you break into the same store three nights in a row?” Defendant: “Well, judge, you see I picked out a dress for my wife and had to change it twice.” T
